No Back Up Now option for File Backup
I have three backups that are recognised by TIH but two have vertical brown lines and one has a blue line at the leading edge of the expanded boxes. (All other backup settings have a blue line and I can back those up.) The only option shown is Recover. How do I trigger a backup, and why the different colours?
It's strange, because they worked last week of their own accord. These three backups were scheduled tasks under TIH 11. I can't find scheduled backups, or the Manage Tasks I had in TIH 11.
I find TIH 12 less easy to use. I'm wondering if I should have stuck with the previous version.
I've found that the three scheduled backups worked overnight. However, TIH doesn't show the correct last update date.
Is this ATI 2011 or 2012? It's a known problem that ATI sometimes orphans backups or doesn't group them into the appropriate backup tasks. E.g, ATI2012 sometimes will make a backup but only show the prior backup as the most recent and ignore the newer valid backup.
For some reason, Acronis decided to use some notion of "data" as the key concept in setting up and listing backups up instead of "backup file", so the backup files (the .tibs) are not central to the organization of ATI database nor the ATI display. Unfortunately, ATI 2011 and 2012 has database problems keeping track of the what data was put into which backup file.
I've been told that this schematic change from prior versions such at ATI 10 and ATI 11 was an attempt to make using ATI easier to use for those with low to moderate computer skills.
ATIH 2012. Acronis has gone backwards with this version. I can't control the scheduled tasks that I ran successfully in ATIH 2011 and which were inherited by 2012. There's no way to edit their settings or fire them up to run outside their schedule times.
Grenville,
You'd better set up a new task with 2012. Other users report they cannot build on an online backup done with 2011. I was successful at having 2012 pick up my disk and partitions chains. Your mileage will vary, it looks like.
I suspect you're right.
Thanks.
If you can't select settings for the task and you can't right click and choose to edit settings or recreate settings, then your recourse is to create a new task -- which is often what one needs to do going form one version of ati to the next.
All the software I use retain previous settings when upgraded. I can't understand why this shouldn't be the case with ATIH.